Comments on: Saving Seeds and Harvesting Winter Squash http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/ Because Food Doesn't Have to Come From the Store Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-3417 admin Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:50:30 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-3417 LeAnn that sounds like an awesome book! This summer I'm so thankful I had garden diversity. So many folks bank on zuchini, cucumbers and tomatoes. I feel sorry for them! LeAnn that sounds like an awesome book! This summer I’m so thankful I had garden diversity. So many folks bank on zuchini, cucumbers and tomatoes. I feel sorry for them!

]]> By: LeAnn http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-3406 LeAnn Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:07:29 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-3406 My garden had also sorts of issues this year too. My tomatos are pitiful. I did fine with blueberries, raspberries and bushbeans. There was a John Grisham book called A Painted House. It got made into a movie. The reason it is meaningful to me is the characters had similar lives to my parents. It follows a year of the kid's life on a poor 30s farm in Arkansas. Their dreams and hopes were simple. They ate out of their garden and much of the book was about the farm and day to day lives including the management of the garden throughout the summer. It was a good year, so they had plenty and canned everything. At the end, there was a natural disaster. The characters in the book took in the occupants of a neighboring farm and fed them from the bounty of their garden. I'm hoping to get the movie soon, because my step children don't read books. They are gaining understanding about how to live and what to think and do, what to teach their children. Important stuff. My garden had also sorts of issues this year too. My tomatos are pitiful. I did fine with blueberries, raspberries and bushbeans.

There was a John Grisham book called A Painted House. It got made into a movie. The reason it is meaningful to me is the characters had similar lives to my parents. It follows a year of the kid’s life on a poor 30s farm in Arkansas. Their dreams and hopes were simple. They ate out of their garden and much of the book was about the farm and day to day lives including the management of the garden throughout the summer. It was a good year, so they had plenty and canned everything. At the end, there was a natural disaster. The characters in the book took in the occupants of a neighboring farm and fed them from the bounty of their garden. I’m hoping to get the movie soon, because my step children don’t read books. They are gaining understanding about how to live and what to think and do, what to teach their children. Important stuff.

]]> By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-2057 admin Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:20:46 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-2057 Thanks Donna! Those tomato seeds came up faster than my new varieties I bought from Territorial. Hopefully the blight won't carry over...I can't wait to get more stuff planted out tomorrow morning since I'm getting tired of carrying stuff out in the morning and in each night. There's a lot of seed sitting going on right now! Thanks Donna! Those tomato seeds came up faster than my new varieties I bought from Territorial. Hopefully the blight won’t carry over…I can’t wait to get more stuff planted out tomorrow morning since I’m getting tired of carrying stuff out in the morning and in each night. There’s a lot of seed sitting going on right now!

]]> By: Donna http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-2053 Donna Sat, 17 Apr 2010 02:40:50 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-2053 Love the idea of using coffee bags, fantastic. I have started my zucchini, green onions and radishes so far on my counter and I love this idea!! Thanks I really enjoyed reading your page here too! Love the idea of using coffee bags, fantastic. I have started my zucchini, green onions and radishes so far on my counter and I love this idea!! Thanks
I really enjoyed reading your page here too!

]]> By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-313 admin Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:22:05 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-313 Pumpkin pie - from your own I'm assuming? I'm so bummed I only got one pie pumpkin so it looks like we'll be eating acorn squash pie this year. Do you wash the squash with a bleach solution like I've read to do? Or do you just put them in the garage? Pumpkin pie – from your own I’m assuming? I’m so bummed I only got one pie pumpkin so it looks like we’ll be eating acorn squash pie this year.

Do you wash the squash with a bleach solution like I’ve read to do? Or do you just put them in the garage?

]]> By: kitsapFG http://www.sustainableeats.com/2009/09/07/saving-seeds-and-harvesting-winter-squash/comment-page-1/#comment-303 kitsapFG Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:36:17 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=454#comment-303 We must have been on similar wave lengths yesterday because I made a big dutch oven pot of chicken and dumplings too! We had leftover pumpkin pie from the prior day's baking and preserving efforts rather than a blackberry confection but certainly have been enjoying the berry season too. As usual, everything looks very tasty! I am staggering my pumpkin harvest, bringing in those that are clearly ripe and ready and doing something with them, and leaving the ones that are not as far along on the vine. The less mature ones will be the Halloween jack o lanterns and the rest will be processed or put into dry cellar storage (which is my garage shelving actually!). We must have been on similar wave lengths yesterday because I made a big dutch oven pot of chicken and dumplings too! We had leftover pumpkin pie from the prior day’s baking and preserving efforts rather than a blackberry confection but certainly have been enjoying the berry season too.

As usual, everything looks very tasty!

I am staggering my pumpkin harvest, bringing in those that are clearly ripe and ready and doing something with them, and leaving the ones that are not as far along on the vine. The less mature ones will be the Halloween jack o lanterns and the rest will be processed or put into dry cellar storage (which is my garage shelving actually!).

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